Re: [Sbcl-devel] Bug or Feature?

On Mar 26, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> Well I send a few mails to James, just it's not clear to me how it
> comes that all the other compilers can cope with it? Well as
> understand this should be the same as ::isbn it's not that a " " is
> between the | and well according to LW this is interpreted as such
>
> (eq '||::isbn ::isbn)
> T
>
> same for CLisp
> (eq '||::isbn ::isbn)
> T
>
> Allegro:
> (eq '||::isbn ::isbn)
> T
>
> So I think it's not a feature but bug in how SBCL reads this stuff.
I would like to believe that you've actually been reading these
responses and not just hitting "reply" every time a response comes back
that doesn't say what you were looking for. Indeed, I usually start out
communication with the belief that the other party wants to gain
knowledge instead of remaining willfully ignorant. I fear that my
ability to reconcile your responses with this belief is running out.
Since you appear to be convinced that this is a bug in SBCL itself,
please point me to chapter and verse in the ANSI specification that
would indicate that this behavior is mandated. I assume you must have
good reason for insisting over and over that this is a bug despite the
responses of people who quite frankly have forgotten more about
implementing ANSI Common Lisp than you've ever known. If that's the
case, please tell me what I'm missing. If not, please stop wasting our
time.
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